From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:53:26 +0000 Subject: Re: revising [patch] add arch_ptrace_stop() hook and use it on ia64 Message-Id: <20070721165326.GA4150@lst.de> List-Id: References: <20070720191246.GA19523@lst.de> In-Reply-To: <20070720191246.GA19523@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:43:28PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > Is anyone ia64-savy interested in revising the patch posted by David in > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m1575781225495&w=2 ? > > > > This would allow for converting ia64 to the generic ptrace code, > > something I would love to see. > > Aren't we heading towards "utrace" as a ptrace replacement? I don't think so. Getting in a monolitic patch that redoes all the debugging is quite impossible, nevermind the problems with all the overengineering and locking in there. Instead Alexey is looking into redoing the important bits from ptrace in small steps and I'm trying to help him a little with that. Having everyone use the generic sys_ptrace would be a very useful step in that direction.